Ignoring the Fear of Untrustworthy Japanese: Alternate History Outcome The Decision
Roosevelt decided to ignore his fear by not signingEXECUTIVE ORDER 9066. As he had said earlier in the year "Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God." He believed in the trust of the American people so much that he felt there was no need to evacuate the Japanese. Even though the Japanese had bombed America at a military base, they believed it was a one time deal. FDR and the
President Franklin D Roosevelt
Secretary of War, HENRY STIMSON, talked and chose to ENGAGE IN WAR but not do anything about the Japanese people on the home front or the danger of the west coast. He felt it would be unfair to lock up the loyal citizens in the FEAR OF SPIES. FDR argued that it would be a violation of citizen rights if we did anything to the Japanese people. STIMSON argued that they should at least get people away from the west coast. Franklin said that the Japanese did not know it was a naval base and they just wanted attempt to expand and scare us.
Japan Continues to Attack FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT had not made a smart decision and America later discovers that in California and Hawaii there were multiple Japanese villages that contained spies for the Japanese army. They were undercover since the end of WWI and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. These men and women were friends of NAGANO OSAMI. "In 1913, [he was] a language officer in the United States, Nagano studied law at Harvard University. Returning to Japan, he became known as an expert on the United States." (encyclopedia britannica 1). Osami is the Japanese admiral who planned the first attack on Pearl Harbor.
Nagano Osami- Japanese Admeral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor
They had been gathering information to give to Hideki Tojo for some time now.Hideki Tojo was Prime Minister in Japan at the time. On February 25, 1942, Japan attacked again but this time it was much more damaging. They bombed all of Hawaii and once there wasn't much left they brought their troops onto the islands. They set up a military base there for themselves and took over. Hawaii was now part of Japan's territory. ROOSEVELTwas unbelievably embarrassed, from not putting the Japanese in camps, the spies continued to send information to Tojo which allowed him to know more about America. Before America could do anything with Japanese citizens, the Japaneses army progressed. They attacked a southern beach in California, this was called The Battle of Ventura. American had a terrible loss. America believed that it was just the Japanese coming in, but there were German soldiers with them s well. America was becoming scared and hopeless.
Life On the Home Front The home front became worse than it has ever been. Everyone was scared and felt their leader, ROOSEVELT, was not taking much action to help. He was frightened himself. Many people emigrated to Britain, thinking it was a safer and better place to be; as a result American population in the West dropped. People who remained in the U.S. attempted to remove FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT from office. The government didn’t do anything to stop it because they had become desperate. HENRY STIMSON became president.The citizens believed he would have smart choices because he disagreed with Roosevelt about America being safe. He was able to defend California and the axis troops were forced off.
America’s Revenge Luckily America did not lose anymore states. They continued to defended their land and had the help from the other allied powers. America continued to fight the war without Hawaii being their territory. The war continued and America had finished making two atomic bombs. On July 16, 1945 it was dropped on Japan to try to end the war. After the bombing, America threatened to attack Hawaii. We then attacked Hawaii with airplanes and land forces. The battles took months. We lost 2,000 soldiers. Germany refused to help Japan fight because Germany was concerned about their own safety. On November 7, 1945, Japan was forced to sign the PUBLIC PROCLAMATION NO. 21, forcing them to hand back Hawaii to the United States. This conflict between America and Japan destroyed any relations that could have been made. They were afraid of America and America now knew that no one will try to invade land because of the fear of the atomic bomb that was used on Japan.
The Decision
Roosevelt decided to ignore his fear by not signingEXECUTIVE ORDER 9066. As he had said earlier in the year "Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God." He believed in the trust of the American people so much that he felt there was no need to evacuate the Japanese. Even though the Japanese had bombed America at a military base, they believed it was a one time deal. FDR and the
Japan Continues to Attack
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT had not made a smart decision and America later discovers that in California and Hawaii there were multiple Japanese villages that contained spies for the Japanese army. They were undercover since the end of WWI and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. These men and women were friends of NAGANO OSAMI. "In 1913, [he was] a language officer in the United States, Nagano studied law at Harvard University. Returning to Japan, he became known as an expert on the United States." (encyclopedia britannica 1). Osami is the Japanese admiral who planned the first attack on Pearl Harbor.
On February 25, 1942, Japan attacked again but this time it was much more damaging. They bombed all of Hawaii and once there wasn't much left they brought their troops onto the islands. They set up a military base there for themselves and took over. Hawaii was now part of Japan's territory. ROOSEVELT was unbelievably embarrassed, from not putting the Japanese in camps, the spies continued to send information to Tojo which allowed him to know more about America. Before America could do anything with Japanese citizens, the Japaneses army progressed. They attacked a southern beach in California, this was called The Battle of Ventura. American had a terrible loss. America believed that it was just the Japanese coming in, but there were German soldiers with them s well. America was becoming scared and hopeless.
Life On the Home Front
The home front became worse than it has ever been. Everyone was scared and felt their leader, ROOSEVELT, was not taking much action to help. He was frightened himself. Many people emigrated to Britain, thinking it was a safer and better place to be; as a result American population in the West dropped. People who remained in the U.S. attempted to remove FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT from office. The government didn’t do anything to stop it because they had become desperate. HENRY STIMSON became president. The citizens believed he would have smart choices because he disagreed with Roosevelt about America being safe. He was able to defend California and the axis troops were forced off.
America’s Revenge
Luckily America did not lose anymore states. They continued to defended their land and had the help from the other allied powers. America continued to fight the war without Hawaii being their territory. The war continued and America had finished making two atomic bombs. On July 16, 1945 it was dropped on Japan to try to end the war. After the bombing, America threatened to attack Hawaii.
We then attacked Hawaii with airplanes and land forces. The battles took months. We lost 2,000 soldiers. Germany refused to help Japan fight because Germany was concerned about their own safety. On November 7, 1945, Japan was forced to sign the PUBLIC PROCLAMATION NO. 21, forcing them to hand back Hawaii to the United States.
This conflict between America and Japan destroyed any relations that could have been made. They were afraid of America and America now knew that no one will try to invade land because of the fear of the atomic bomb that was used on Japan.
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